Royal Air Force

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Waters
Sarah was close to her father, Ron, an engineer working in oil refineries who had done his National Service with the RAF .
Allardice, Lisa. “Uncharted Waters”. The Guardian.
Waters, Sarah. The Little Stranger. Virago.
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McCrum, Robert. “What lies beneath”. Guardian.com.uk.
She found him a great inspirer, who made up stories for...
Residence Elizabeth Taylor
ET and her family had their first spell at Scarborough in Yorkshire, where her husband was posted as a reservist with the wartime RAF . They were there again for about the same season...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Taylor
They had met as fellow members of High Wycombe Theatre Club;
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
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John's father was then Mayor of High Wycombe. Elizabeth was strongly attracted to John, and was wildly excited when she found herself pregnant...
Textual Production Lesley Storm
Three years later, Abem Finkel and Lesser Samuels adapted this play for film. The cinematic version, starring Rita Hayworth and Lee Bowman , was titled Tonight and Every Night. It turns Rosalind into an...
Literary responses G. B. Stern
GBS was visited during the second world war by an RAF officer who had the greatest admiration for her Rakonitz novels (which had been recommended to him by his aunt, who lived in the same...
Travel Freya Stark
FS began another journey through Persia, this time to map the ancient settlement of Shabwa. She was unsuccessful at this because of an angina attack, but her dramatic rescue by the Royal Air Force
Publishing Freya Stark
FS published her first article in the Times: about the capture by rebels and the negotiated release of two RAF pilots during the process of British handover of Iraq to the Iraqis.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
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Occupation Freya Stark
Back in Baghdad in October 1931, FS began to increase her writing pace. The Royal Air Force printed her maps, and she published in the Geographical Journal. She also disguised herself in an 'abba...
Textual Production Freya Stark
This text details Stark's attempt to reach the buried site of Shabwa; this failed when she experienced an angina attack and was rescued by the RAF . Harry St John Philby became the first...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Ridler
AR and her husband had two daughters and two sons, and in due course six or more grandchildren and the same number of great-grandchildren.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
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Their daughter Jane was born on the snowy night of...
Textual Features Winsome Pinnock
WP used patois for the first time in A Hero's Welcome, and found it liberating.
Stephenson, Heidi, and Natasha Langridge. Rage and Reason: Women Playwrights on Playwriting. Methuen Drama.
Set in the Caribbean in 1947, this play features three young women looking for a path in life and...
Residence E. Nesbit
EN sold Well Hall, which she could not afford to keep up, and moved with her second husband, the Skipper , to two converted RAF huts outside the village of St Mary in the...
Textual Production Gwen Moffat
GM issued through her usual publisher, Hodder and Stoughton , Two Star Red. A Book about R.A.F. Mountain Rescue.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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Family and Intimate relationships Gwen Moffat
He had been diverted from physical training instruction in the RAF in 1951, following a horrific plane crash in Scotland, into the field of mountain rescue. From early 1952 he headed the RAF mountain rescue...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Cecily Mackworth
Czechoslovakia Fights Back, printed on flimsy wartime economy paper, is a moving document. Its opening sentence runs: Czechoslovakia was the first non-German country to experience a Nazi occupation and has thus had longer than...

Timeline

1 April 1918: The Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) was founded...

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1 April 1918

The Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) was founded to employ those women who had worked at air stations during the First World War as members of the British naval or military female forces, the Women's...

1 March 1919: The Royal Air Force began air-mail service...

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1 March 1919

The Royal Air Force began air-mail service between Folkestone in England, and Cologne in Germany, for the British occupation force in the Rhineland.

28 June 1939: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was...

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28 June 1939

The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was established for duty with the all-male Royal Air Force (RAF) in time of war. It was mobilized two months later, and in the Second World War gave a...

4 June 1940: Winston Churchill made one of his most famous...

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4 June 1940

Winston Churchill made one of his most famous war speeches in the House of Commons .

8 August-31 October 1940: The Battle of Britain was fought over Southeastern...

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8 August-31 October 1940

The Battle of Britain was fought over Southeastern England between the German Luftwaffe and the English Royal Air Force Fighter Command .

24 August 1940: German bombs were dropped on London for the...

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24 August 1940

German bombs were dropped on London for the first time.

15 September 1940: This date later became unofficially known...

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15 September 1940

This date later became unofficially known as Battle of Britain day: a massive Luftwaffe raid intended for the final defeat of the RAF was successfully countered with huge losses of German planes.

19 June 1941: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF, later...

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19 June 1941

The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF, later the Women's Royal Air Force) and the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS, later the Women's Royal Army Corps) were granted military status.

28 March 1942: Arthur Bomber Harris began the RAF offensive...

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28 March 1942

Arthur Bomber Harris began the RAF offensive against German cities: a night raid dropped incendiary bombs on residential areas in Lübeck.

30 May 1942: A thousand Royal Air Force bombers attacked...

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30 May 1942

A thousand Royal Air Force bombers attacked Cologne in the first of a series of thousand-bomber raids.

5 September 1944: Ten days after Paris was liberated from the...

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5 September 1944

Ten days after Paris was liberated from the occupying Nazis , Le Havre on the French coast was flattened by RAF bombing.

22 June 1948: Passengers disembarked from the steamship...

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22 June 1948

Passengers disembarked from the steamship Empire Windrush at Tilbury in Essex: four hundred and ninety young men from the Caribbean, especially Jamaica, most of them until recently servicemen with the RAF .
Phillips, Mark. “Windrush—the Passengers”. BBC History.

11 May 1963: The Committee of 100 (a disarmament group...

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11 May 1963

The Committee of 100 (a disarmament group with which Pat Arrowsmith was associated, offshoot of CND ) held a demonstration at the RAF base at Marham in Norfolk.

27 August 1981: A group of thirty-six women left Cardiff...

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27 August 1981

A group of thirty-six women left Cardiff on foot, to walk the 120 miles to the RAF base at Greenham Common near Newbury to protest against the plan for its use as a home for...

15 April 1986: Following years of deteriorating relations,...

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15 April 1986

Following years of deteriorating relations, the USA mounted bombing raids on Tripoli and other places in Libya in retaliation for alleged Libyan involvement in a discotheque bomb in West Berlin on 5 April.

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